The first photo is taken in a farm located
in the north of Iran with one of the very first Canon digital cameras around
ten years ago; the quality of the camera was 3.2 mega pixels. When I saw the
cow, I thought she had posed for a photo. However, back then I did not know much
about Photoshop and never thought to edit any photos including this one. When I
got more familiar with Photoshop, I decided to learn how to transform a photo
into painting because I always wanted to paint; the expensive material and the
fact that paining needs space stopped me from further pursuing. I started
reading about it and watched many tutorial videos, and finally I got a bit
information how to do so. The first thing I did in this photo was to mix the
background color using Photoshop’s brushes and adding some colors of my
favorite such as purple and yellow. After I was satisfied with the background,
I started working on the cow itself. I again used the brushes to mix the colors
and added some touches of green to harmonize the cow with its colorful background.
At the end, I took advantage of one of the Photoshop’s exceptional tools,
layers. I added a dark layer with a minimum visibility to my work to darken it
a bit since it had become too bright.
The second photo is taken in Punta Cana
beach with Nikon Coolpix digital camera almost five years ago. What made me to
capture that moment was the loneliness of those chairs. To make it even
lonelier, I got rid of the people swimming, when I was editing the photo. To
edit this photo, I only used Corel Painter, which is a great tool for those who
love to paint; it gives you a lot of brushes that are capable of moving on your
canvas just like a real brush. In this one, again, I mixed the colors by one of
the brushes and removed unwanted subjects out of it. Then, I added a layer that
had a greenish fabric texture with medium visibility and made the photo a bit greener
than the original one.
I Believe that these images can certainly
confuse the audience since they more look like paintings than photos.
Especially, the image of the cow is very different from the original one, and
can simply mislead the audience and make them think that it is a painting and
not a photo. However, I do not think that it is unethical to edit photos and transform
them to paintings or other arts as long as we are not hiding the fact that they
are reproduced from a photo.
Below are some of my other work samples using pretty
much the same techniques.
